Help me decide on a custom image for my credit card

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#1  Edited By HotelDon

Being the unique snowflake that I am, I'd say Capital One's custom credit card images are the perfect way to tell every cashier "IM A NERD AND I ENJOY RECKLESS SPENDING" in the most efficient way possible. But I'm not exactly sure what image I should use. My original idea was to use a picture of a fat can of "The Pickles" from Deadly Premonition, but all the images I find are extremely low resolution (which makes sense, considering they were extremely low resolution even in the game itself).

I'm not exactly an art person, and don't have any art friends, so I'd be willing to pay someone to draw me a hi res copy of some deadly pickles, but I was wondering what you guys thought. Should I stick with the pickles? Should I get another Endurance Run reference instead, like Funky Student? Or perhaps some other obscure inside joke? Before you suggest something, here's a list of Capital One's guidelines for custom images. The short version is, it can't contain anything that is obviously copyrighted by someone else (although something sufficiently obscure might squeak by), it can't be something stolen (if you had an image in mind, I'd need the owners permission to use it), and it should be work safe. Also, the image should probably be wider than it is tall. You know, rectangles and all.

Here's an image of the card with a solid black background as a reference, if that helps. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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#2  Edited By buzz_clik

Here's the closest thing I've got. I may still have the Illustrator file somewhere - I'll have a look to see if I can find it. If I can, you're welcome to use it!

EDIT: Obviously I'm only talking about the pickle graphic. I'm not suggesting you put an entire picture of a bogus Deadly Premonition t-shirt on your card.

EDIT 2: And I wouldn't worry too much about the copyright issues here. From what I can tell if you sent SWERY a picture of you holding up your picklified credit card, he'd really dig it.

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#4  Edited By nohthink

When in doubt, go hadoken

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#5  Edited By Beanpants

Here you go:

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#6  Edited By EuanDewar

Hey I didn't read any of your post but going off the title it should probably be dicks, like several large, erect dicks. And dollar signs.

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#7  Edited By buzz_clik

Hey, I found it. And I even fixed up the bottom of the can, which I've always wanted to do since I made it!

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#8  Edited By soldierg654342
Any part of this, really.
Any part of this, really.
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#9  Edited By buzz_clik

@SoldierG654342: FUCK YOU! I was totally just thinking about this book the other day. GET OUT OF MY BRAIN! GET OUT! GET!

Seriously, I've gotta find where I've stashed all my Fighting Fantasy books. I should fucking marathon the whole series.

P.S. You get a follow and some lime for your awesome post.

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#10  Edited By korwin

Go the full narcissist route and get a glamour shot of yourself put on there.

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#11  Edited By HotelDon

@Beanpants: Ha! That'd be perfect for some other credit card shenanigans I was thinking of. I'd add an additional user to my account with the name "Douchebag Fakename", make that the background, write "VOID DO NOT HONOR" all over the back in the signature field, and see how many purchases I can make with it.

@buzz_clik: Oh wow, that's perfect. Thank you! I should have known someone on Giantbomb probably had something whipped up already.

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#12  Edited By l4wd0g

I giant dick? Alway classy.

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#14  Edited By SSully

@The_Laughing_Man said:

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This, it is perfect! But it's also copyrighted, so that might not work

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#15  Edited By NekuCTR
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Seems appropriate based on your Avatar.

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#16  Edited By buzz_clik

@HotelDon: Well, it's ready to rock whenever you are. What kinda specs you need it at?

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#17  Edited By B0nd07

Aw, I was gonna suggest this:

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1280x800

But a can of The Pickles is good too.

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#18  Edited By louiedog

Credit to Beanpants in the staff photo edit thread. Why wouldn't you want this to be your credit card?

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#19  Edited By Ketchupp
Wario shaking a bag of coins
Wario shaking a bag of coins
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#20  Edited By tim_the_corsair

Black field with Brad photobombing from behind the CC logo?

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#22  Edited By fourby

@crusader8463: That set of planets would make a fucking sick credit card image.

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@Ketchupp said:

Wario shaking a bag of coins
Wario shaking a bag of coins

never shall a better caption be written

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#24  Edited By HotelDon

@buzz_clik: I'm not exactly sure, the website says the image needs to be a minimum of 840x840 to upload into their system, but when you do that you end up with a picture that is the perfect width but almost twice as tall as it needs to be.

[edit] Hmm, I was fiddling around with the image preview on their website, using the example you posted originally, and it seems like it'd be the perfect size if it was about 1.5x to 2x bigger.

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@louiedog said:

Credit to Beanpants in the staff photo edit thread. Why wouldn't you want this to be your credit card?

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Now I gotta go apply for a credit card...

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#26  Edited By _Zombie_

A cleverly disguised penis.

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#27  Edited By BSw

@huntad said:

@louiedog said:

Credit to Beanpants in the staff photo edit thread. Why wouldn't you want this to be your credit card?

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Now I gotta go apply for a credit card...

I have the same urge.

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#28  Edited By Lunar_Aura

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Only applies if you have a certain credit limit...

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